My favorite all time is the Mann's Augertail worm in purple. :-)

My second favorite is a 6" red worm with the dark blood line running through it. I vividly remember a day on lake Fork where me and a buddy went through a hundred of these in a day! We lost count on how many fish we caught!

old favorites wont stop working. the fish around now were not alive back when people were getting all the fish on old favorites like the purple worm, so it may be something I need to try. I typically use green pumpkin, watermelon or something like that. I need to go get some of the 7" Purple Manns Jelly Worms

When all else seems to fail, I turn to a tried-and-true Kelly's Pier Boy Special in Purple Wild Grape.

 

http://www.kellysbassworms.com/products.asp

 

I clamp on a split shot about 18-24 inches from the worm and hop it along the bottom, or even sometimes just slowly drag it through the water.

 

More often than not when all the other fish catchers I own fail to land fish, this one will work.

I could be mistaken but I believe it was Tom Mann that made the famous (at least it was famous among the guys I fished with) statement; "Any size or color of plastic worm will catch fish as long as it is 6 inches and purple". That was back when the only plastic worms we could find were purple or black and all of them were 6 inches. Anyway, we took it to heart and went together (the bass club that is) and ordered several thousand purple jelly worms to split up among us. They did catch fish in Lake Dardenelle and the Ark. River that feeds it. I believe I still have a few, I think.

My dad would always swear by a culprit grape worm. You'd think he had stock in the company with as many as he had. He caught fish on them, so i guess they worked.

LC

my dad is the exact same lol

The more I read the more I believe it had a lot to do with the minimum amount of choices available. As where now there are hundreds if not thousands of colors. But I guess to prove myself wrong, within all these colors, green pumpkin is a fad for a long time

This brings back memories for me as my first bass was caught 35 years ago on purple fire-tail worm.  I remember this so well because my next 9 were caught on the same worm within two hours.  All of these were caught without the benefit of Trokar hooks, tungsten weights, or fluorocarbon line.  Looking back now, it was a miracle I ever caught these fish. Anyway this has always been a fantastic color combo for me.